PhilH, one of the classics "are you being served". Made me chuckle 😃

Cannot answer this one as I am sure the correct answer is not listed.🤔

I'm surprised at the answer I would not have thought he would have sailed around the world, but then I saw his wife in "are you being served" so I think I might have sail around the world 🌎🤣🤣
PhilGB 👍

Robin Knox Johnson was the first solo, 50 years ago, but he is not in the options!!!

But now I cannot read my own post, this is daft!
Roy

@Edw. yes. I spent the last hour looking for the "disable feature" button. I don't want to play this game anymore but its darn addictive 🤣

Another one where the correct answer is none of the above. Robin Knox-Johnston Was the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world. Slocum stopped in many places in his three year voyage.

Didn't know that, something new learned this morning 😊

My internet is so slow by the time Jeantot did it someone else beat him to it.
But as my history teacher always said, "Read the question!"

@SimpleSaillor. Agreed. A rocker is a curved hull.

Sheer madness 😜

SimpleSailor,
Oh well, I didn't know the answer and so I took a guess at sheer 🤔and got the right, wrong answer. however daft that sounds.
I suppose I was lucky 😋with the wrong, right answer.

Here we go again. The answer given as correct is wrong. The sheer is the curvature of the deck line it is not the curvature of the main hull. Ref: https://www.marineinsight.com/naval-architecture/what-is-sheer-flare-and-camber-in-ships/

Had a guess at sheer as I did wonder if it was going to be another goofy answer.
Roy

Sheer?
No comment.
Michel-C.

Watch "The wolf's call". It says a lot about Chinese Chicken Pings

I have heard they do Chicken ping at Chinese restaurants. (old joke)
Roy

“One ping only please”

Are these questions being posed for me because I'm dumb🤣🤣 keep them coming I need all the help I can get.
Philuk👍

Oh Weh!🙄
Loosely translated as 'Ye Gods and little fishes🙄'

😎

Geography 101. The rest just doesnt fit

Hi Roy
Many thanks for the info. I had the pleasure of spending a few hours with friends on a 40 C&C on Lake Ontario while I really enjoyed and appreciated the skill required to operate decide I prefer twin engines and power
Although after seeing a twin engine ketch which I belive was ex National Geographic I could be converted.
Regards
Austin

Hi Austin, He lives in Australia and it is moored at a Marina on a buoy. If you check a map for Sydney Harbour and go up the coast from there the next 'inlet' is Brokenwater leading to Brisbane Water, but he is the sea side of the Rip Bridge. Brisbane water is over 60 square miles in area so a lot of water, subject to a 3-4 foot level tide change.

The Rip bridge is justly named as the tide coming in or out can be treacherous. I found out on my own, while canoe paddling an inflatable 10 foot board set up with a seat.
I went through on the basis it was high tide, but I was an hour out and the water looked calm on my return, then a leisure boat of about 40 foot cruised by and the water just turned into waves, shoulder height. At one point the water under me was running at 10+knots and the next it was in the opposite direction, I was helped through by a friendly tow from a motor boat in the end.

I later found the water is 120 feet deep and it is 600 feet across and a few calculations showed 5/600 tons of water were coming though every second! For every tide 1.25 million tons of water pass under the bridge in each direction! I did not go back!

It is Rip as in tidal rip and it was because it was so dangerous to cross, that the Rip Bridge was built in 1972, it was also a necessary road route enabling easier travel times and has regular traffic. At the time it was the longest single span bridge in Australia.

So that is at the town of Woy Woy, it's best known person is none other than Spike Milligan! The local library has a room devoted to him and there is a very nice footbridge called Spike Milligan Bridge. No room for cars, a touch I am sure he would have liked and appreciated!

Questions always have a little more to reveal than at first sight, I hope you did not mind my extras?
Roy

Very nice yacht where does he birth it

On our son's yacht a Beneteau 40 foot Oceanis the sail is furled and it can unfurl into a jib or when fully out into a Genoa. Nice and easy to balance the sail plan that way according to wind strength.
The larger yachts nearly all have furled up foresails often with a dark colour band that can be replaced. This is a sacrificial strip about a foot in width and takes all the damage of UV radiation so giving the actual sail an increased life span. The sacrificial strip is easily replaced when it bleaches out in colour.
regards
Roy

Slowly making a comeback...slowly!

this answer, ie. jib, is not altogether correct. it might be applied to the sail on a bermuda rigged sloop, but in most cases the correct answer is staysail. The jib is the next sail , (moving forward, away from the mast), then flying jib.😉

the one not offered was starcut spinaker - also triangular and forward of the mast, but as this was not offered, it had to be jib.

Could also have been A or D depends on what "ahead" means. Luck was on my side though.

Good question for me today. Only down the road from my home in Devon.🤣

Yep same here - undecided and picked Lizard- oops! ☹️

Wow!! What a lucky guess.
I knew there was two lighthouses down that way. I was trying to think which one to go for, I was going to go for The Lizard ans I almost did and I changed my mind and pressed the Longships Lighthouse instead.
I has even jumped my % up to 93% WHOOPEE.
But I only knew there was two down there because I used to work with someone who came from down there, and he used to go shark fishing down there.

Yer same here I thought it was the lizard lighthouse,shows you what I know 🤣🤣
Philuk👍

Well I got that wrong as it was a pure guess.

Simple process of elimination today, shone the light of solution in my mind😉
Hallelujah. 😎

Ah the Short Nightie, lovely ship, I went on around 1972.

A beautiful vessel and a fantastic restoration

I couldn't get that one wrong either, I am a South London boy and was born just a few miles along the road from Greenwich. Lewisham boy me, and me and my mates used to go down to Greenwich and go onto the Cutty Sark as kids, I couldn't afford to go onto it these days. Far too expensive now, but what a beautiful ship she is, great to see she got rebuilt after the fire. I still believe someone set her on fire deliberately.

Definitely one of my favorite square riggers of all time.

Depending on how one uses said device, it could also prove entertaining 😂

On the other hand - if he had a loud enough or annoying enough horn - the bridge would have jumped out of the way.😁😁

Q. Why do cows have bells?

A. Because their horns don't work

But Brinkman - He wasn't about to hit another Boat - What he should have used was a boat hook pole to fend off the bridge!!!

So its not B? I learnt stuff today😎

LuckyDuck,

Do you suppose if the container ship Dali had been sporting a Maserati air horn, that stubborn Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore would have moved out of the way?

Maybe you're onto something .....

Dave B

This was no hornery question and required considerable thought especially with the old reliable options not being present. Being alerted to ones presence is a bit hi-falluting but there you go. The you know what option had a lot of 'alerting to ones presence' and all to no avail.
regards
Roy

The only horn I could think of was Foghorn Leghorn. Maybe it would play a looney tune. 😀

The question does not ask what sort of horn - I have to presume from the answers offered that it has to be one that makes a sound - as opposed to the cow horn which just hurts or the Maserati car horns that just alert you to the fact some fancy car is coming!! Imagine a Maserati air horn on one of the modern container ships - an interesting idea?🤣🤣🤣🤣

What!! No Titanic option today 🤣

Hi Doug. Rudy wanted to be shown something different and unique, so I obliged....😁

Thanks Doug but I must confess, it has been down to sheer luck with finger stabs. I think that every question should have Titanic, Lusitania and Bismark as three of the options.😬